I was excited to make my 6th monk today as I made a haranir. i named it Aoioa (to fit in with Aoibhinn, Aoiwalkinn, Aoibrewinn, Aoimountainn, and Ayobynn)
But then I’m like wait how are Haranir monks. It makes sense that Dracthyr can’t be monks because they don’t have souls and are grown from test tubes. Sorry dracthyr that’s why you also can’t be dk, shaman, or anything that requires a soul. Or maybe you just don’t have access to the element of spirit because you’re not natural. Whatever the case is, it can be rationalized why Dracthyr aren’t monks besides gameplay reasons.
Um but how is Haranir monks? There is no monks in harandar except me who came and solved all their problems and punched all their enemies.
Did I train my haranir alt? There’s no way a pandaren made it down here from the wandering isles. I suppose it would make complete sense that maybe they learned to be monks from the August Celestials in a time before the sundering and August Celestials journied to pandaria at the call of Freya. There is even an azerite cloud serpent, the herald of Aln’hara, but uh…well…how do the haranir know the martial traditions of the Pandaren? Maybe they know the mystical side through some mental gymnastics regarding the august celestials or other wild gods maybe or maybe some other means but the martial traditions of the monk orders that teach things like Fists of Fury, combo strikes, dance of the wind, etc. like isn’t that passed down knowledge from pandarens?
Does anyone know if this is explained at all? And assuming that they didn’t learn from the celestials or herald in ancient times, then how are they invoking Chi-ji, Yulon, Niuzao, or Xuen? How do they know our most secret forbidden technique, touch of death? How do they know what Sheilun is? Shadow-pan?
<_> help
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You’re looking for a lore answer to a mechanics question, imo. If you’re looking for an easy way to make it fit, just go with your Haranir learned it from Alliance or Horde monks after surfacing.
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Lots of bats on Pandaria. Some of those were Haranir. [/Speculation]
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or just gow ith theyre a martiala rtist/own kionda monk themselfs
the gmareeplay is themed aroudn the pandaren monks, but lore classes and gameplay rarly match up
Like the paladin as by gameplay be only for humans and dwarves, others are different (like tauren are sunwalkers basicly sun druid)
or how a draenei can be a monk even lightforged in lroe without the pandaren/alliance becuase they had their own martial arts back on argus
Hairy elf punches rock below ground, comes above ground, learns proper way to punch rocks.
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I think the idea isn’t that the haranir have a bunch of monks. Just that your player character was a super oddball and maybe a good fighter and now they’re exposed to the world at large and are using that to really hone in on their training.
I just think of the random white American dudes that speak Chinese for no real practical reason and get online and surprise Chinese people with their good accents. Common? No. Possible? Yes, but only when the internet opened up the world to it.
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Class/Race combinations no longer have any adherence to lore, and if they do, it’s flimsy. Vulpera had priests, mages and warlocks out of the gate with zero indication they even so much as practiced any religion at all, let alone traditions of arcane and dark magics.
Sure, you can handwave it and be like “eh they picked it up from X, Y, or Z” but we’re not given any of that. It’s entirely in the player’s head as to why a race has a class, which would be fine if that was the status quo for every class across every race, but it’s been a case of “This class fits this race”.
Hell, it’s why they cut Warlocks from Zandalari in favor of Paladins when they were introduced.
Bottom line here is this:
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This is acceptable. Those of you who have the strength to save this land, follow him. The rest of you, get out of my sight.